I'm well aware that the Voltaire quote is self-referential, but my post is more than just the quote. I'm not offended by the Ben Franklin quote. I think it's quite good and I agree with its sentiment. What offends me is when people use that quote as their entire argument. It's not self-supporting. It's nothing more than an assertion made by one guy a long time ago. And it's certainly not "insightful" to write a one-line post that is just a regurgitation of something that's been said a million times.
Please, please stop posting that Ben Franklin quote without supporting it. It's been on Slashdot enough that certainly almost all of us know it by heart. Simply repeating it without expanding on it is neither insightful nor even remotely meaningful.
It seems that a fair number of people aren't aware of the difference between music notation programs and sequencing software. Finale is for music notation, programs like Cubase and GarageBand are for sequencing. Think of music notation as word processing for sheet music. It's not for putting together tracks on your computer, it's for people like my dad (professor of film music and music theory) who want to compose, say, a four-part bassoon piece.
I think you mean ^x ^s ^x ^c, which is the equivalent of vi's wq. Although, you can just do ^x ^c, and if the file has changed since it was last saved, emacs will ask if you'd like to save it before exiting. (Not that you care.)
That's the thing about HCI people. They're part of an entire field devoted to telling you that your opinion is wrong. The trouble is, by their measures, you are wrong -- they just don't realize that their measures are an incomplete picture of the computing experience. There are people in HCI who are trying to change this and I applaud them, but until they succeed, you are absolutely right.
Or, to quote one of John Cusack's characters, "How can it be bullshit to state a preference?"
You don't have to know very much at all about economics to know that the cost of production doesn't set the price of a good or service. You charge what people are willing to pay.
Furthermore the sky looks overcasted on the pictures as it cannot be considering the sharp shadows on the sundial. If the sky was overcast, then because of diffuse lighting, there would be no shadows.
Care to explain the sharp shadows in this picture then? It was taken inside a cloud.
I'm positive DR1 came out early 2000, because that was right after I moved across the country. In any event, if you count DR1, that's still four years. And if you really want to stretch it, you can count the original incarnations of Mac OS X Server or even NeXTSTEP.
I don't want to diminish your complaint. However, I have to wonder what the reasons are for your attachment to two-button mice. I will readily admit that when I use a Windows box, I'm all over the contextual menus. Maybe it's just me, but I simply don't use contextual menus on the Mac. I don't find it inconvenient to control-click to bring them up, so that's not why. I wonder if maybe contextual menus aren't an important part of the Mac interface, but switchers are so used to an OS where they're critical that they're reluctant to give them up. Just something to consider.
I'm under the impression that dog tags are required by the Geneva Convention. I don't think an implant like this would satisfy the requirement. But I could just be making this up.
The girl is Anya Major, and she was chosen in part because she was the only one who didn't get dizzy spinning the hammer around. There is more general information about the commercial here.
My boss has a JD and told me a funny story from law school. The reason lawyers use all that ridiculous language in contracts is that there's all sorts of case law for incomprehensible contracts -- because they're incomprehensible. The ones that are written in plain language are never disputed because they're easy to understand, so there's no case law on them. Most lawyers would rather use language that has been disputed before so that they'll have precedent to back them up.
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I don't know about you, but I'm terrified in all the right ways.
What will they talk about?
I'm well aware that the Voltaire quote is self-referential, but my post is more than just the quote. I'm not offended by the Ben Franklin quote. I think it's quite good and I agree with its sentiment. What offends me is when people use that quote as their entire argument. It's not self-supporting. It's nothing more than an assertion made by one guy a long time ago. And it's certainly not "insightful" to write a one-line post that is just a regurgitation of something that's been said a million times.
Please, please stop posting that Ben Franklin quote without supporting it. It's been on Slashdot enough that certainly almost all of us know it by heart. Simply repeating it without expanding on it is neither insightful nor even remotely meaningful.
It seems that a fair number of people aren't aware of the difference between music notation programs and sequencing software. Finale is for music notation, programs like Cubase and GarageBand are for sequencing. Think of music notation as word processing for sheet music. It's not for putting together tracks on your computer, it's for people like my dad (professor of film music and music theory) who want to compose, say, a four-part bassoon piece.
It would also take twice as long.
I think you mean ^x ^s ^x ^c, which is the equivalent of vi's wq. Although, you can just do ^x ^c, and if the file has changed since it was last saved, emacs will ask if you'd like to save it before exiting. (Not that you care.)
You know, you could just run Emacs natively on Windows like the rest of us... ;-)
Or, to quote one of John Cusack's characters, "How can it be bullshit to state a preference?"
It might be annoying or inappropriate, but please explain how this is a violation of your rights, and specifically which rights are being violated.
You don't have to know very much at all about economics to know that the cost of production doesn't set the price of a good or service. You charge what people are willing to pay.
Care to explain the sharp shadows in this picture then? It was taken inside a cloud.
I'm positive DR1 came out early 2000, because that was right after I moved across the country. In any event, if you count DR1, that's still four years. And if you really want to stretch it, you can count the original incarnations of Mac OS X Server or even NeXTSTEP.
I was using Developer Release 1 in spring of 2000.
I don't want to diminish your complaint. However, I have to wonder what the reasons are for your attachment to two-button mice. I will readily admit that when I use a Windows box, I'm all over the contextual menus. Maybe it's just me, but I simply don't use contextual menus on the Mac. I don't find it inconvenient to control-click to bring them up, so that's not why. I wonder if maybe contextual menus aren't an important part of the Mac interface, but switchers are so used to an OS where they're critical that they're reluctant to give them up. Just something to consider.
Thanks for the reply. That is simultaneously the most interesting and disturbing thing I've read all day. ;-)
I'm under the impression that dog tags are required by the Geneva Convention. I don't think an implant like this would satisfy the requirement. But I could just be making this up.
I can't seriously be the first person here to point out that the LC520 doesn't even use the same line of processor as modern Macs...
The girl is Anya Major, and she was chosen in part because she was the only one who didn't get dizzy spinning the hammer around. There is more general information about the commercial here.
My boss has a JD and told me a funny story from law school. The reason lawyers use all that ridiculous language in contracts is that there's all sorts of case law for incomprehensible contracts -- because they're incomprehensible. The ones that are written in plain language are never disputed because they're easy to understand, so there's no case law on them. Most lawyers would rather use language that has been disputed before so that they'll have precedent to back them up.
I buy the bottled stuff so that I have a bottle that I can fill up at the water fountain.
Probably? They do. I just closed a project to install a system exactly as you describe. (It runs on Linux, by the way.)
You can't be serious. What the hell does MS Office have to do with a missing child report?
That "specialty hardware" is an x86 laptop on a mounting bracket, connected via IP to the same servers at HQ that the rest of the force uses.